Friday Night (High)Lights

No, not the Texas football series

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"I'm Good"

A concise primer on southern linguistics

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It's All About the Stock (I Think)

Detective work in our soul food kitchen

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My Daughter's First Rhubarb . . . My First Rhubarb

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Primal Therapy

On smells and memory

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"Your Vegan Burger Costs HOW MUCH?"

Then again, eating cheaply may be the most expensive thing we do

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What a Long, Strange Trip . . .

Fielding a marketing call from TripAdvisor

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The Quarantine Cooking Kit

Shhhhhhh (it’s a surprise)

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Long, Day's Journey Into . . .

The Slow Food Movement in Fast-Paced Tel Aviv

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Is it a Bad Thing to go Through 17 Kilos of Tchina Paste in 3 Months?

(or, the Omnivore’s Dilemma resolved?)

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Hiding My Candy

So here I am, half a century later, linking the title of a book by an infamous Savannah drag queen to memories about quasi-forbidden fruit

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Viola!

It’s a garlic thing.

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Comin' Home Baby

(written by jazz bass legend and close family friend Ben Tucker)

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Vegan Gumbo

Pictured here with barbeque tofu

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"Name One New Thing You've Learned Today"

(and then figure out where you are going to put it)

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Norton Melaver, Matzah Brei King

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Passover Seder #2, or the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dinner Night

A modest proposal for changing the Seder #2 fare

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Horseradish: Hands Down Best Dish on Passover

(not that it has much competition, frankly)

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Gettin' Kulcha

If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time

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"Not Cheap, But Worth Every Penny"

A Meditation on one guest’s unsolicited review.

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Sderot Chen 51 Tel Aviv, Israel שדרות חן 51 תל אביב, ישראל

OPEN MONDAY — FRIDAY

+972-54-236-0781Martin@etzlenu.com

Sderot Chen 51 Tel Aviv, Israel
שדרות חן 51 תל אביב, ישראל

+972-54-236-0781
Martin@etzlenu.com